Had a server with them for more than 10 years. Had they eliminated the setup fee...

sshagent · on Feb 20, 2024

They often have a couple of servers with no setup.

ecmascript · on Feb 20, 2024

The setup fee is a one-time fee though, so if you have a server for many years that won't hurt so much. I pay around €30/month for the server I am renting but I know it will last a long time even if I get spikes on any on my many projects. For a 8 core, 16GB droplet/vps at DigitalOcean it will cost you ~$96/month. The performance is better at Hetzner for about 1/3 the cost.

gokhan · on Feb 20, 2024

Yes. I'm talking about occasional needs for a small server for a month or two.

gowthamgts12 · on Feb 20, 2024

Why not go with hertzner cloud? No setup fees and you'll be billed by the usage. Still cheaper than other cloud providers.

throwaway11460 · on Feb 20, 2024

The VM performance tax is huge. Also, no GPU and limited/paid traffic (large limit though).

ecmascript · on Feb 20, 2024

They have VPS cloud offerings similar to DigitalOcean as well, with no setup fees.

e12e · on Feb 20, 2024

Use the server auction? No setup fee then.

Citizen_Lame · on Feb 20, 2024

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ecmascript · on Feb 20, 2024

I don't work at Hetzner, I live in Sweden. I'm just a happy customer giving praise for a company that really doesn't get so much attention.

With all big american companies seemingly getting so much attention nowadays, I am glad for the European alternatives that we have where you don't have to ship your customers data to the three letter agencies.